Developmental biology

This fifth of 15 short atlases reimagines the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development.

Volume 109 of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers mouse models of the nuclear envelopathies and related diseases, with contributions from an international board of authors.

Over the past decade, significant advances in the fields of stem cell biology, bioengineering, and animal models have converged on the discipline of regenerative medicine.

This volume reviews our current understanding for how sex determination is initiated and how it results in sexual dimorphic development.

In 1993, Rolf Bodmer described a gene he named tinman that was required for the formation of the dorsal aorta of the fly.

Nutrition and Cancer, Volume 373 presents a collection of chapters that describe the effect of different metabolic situations, their contribution to metabolic modulation, and their impact on tumor growth.

This book explores the rich evolutionary history of bats from multiple perspectives, presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries involving fossil bats.

This book presents selected contributions to the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2015 in Marseille.

Perinatal Stem Cells provides researchers and clinicians with a comprehensive description of the current clinical and pre-clinical applications of stem cells derived from perinatal sources, such as amniotic fluid, placenta and placental membranes, the umbilical cord and Wharton's jelly.

Evolution, biology, and society is a catch-all phrase encompassing any scholarly work that utilizes evolutionary theory and/or biological or behavioral genetic methods in the study of the human social group, and The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society contains an much needed overview of research in the area by sociologists and other social scientists.

Marine biology has always played an important role in biological research, being at the origin of many key advances.

Biomolecular Interactions: Part A, Volume 166, the latest release in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics in cell biology.

Current Topics in Developmental Biology provides a comprehensive survey of the major topics in the field of developmental biology.

Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass: Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry is concerned with the historical domestication of sweetgrass, the main construction/structural grass used in the three century old African-American tradition of coiled basketry in South Carolina.

This book gives a current overview on the development, origin, structure, and functions of germline and somatic cell syncytia during embryogenesis and organogenesis.

One of the major questions in the evolution of animals is the transition from unicellular to multicellular organization, which resulted in the emergence of Metazoa through a hypothetical Urmetazoa.

This comprehensive volume covers recent studies into agricultural problems caused by soil and water contamination.

The main goal of this book is to put the Darwinian tradition in context by raising questions such as: How should it be defined?

Recent Advances in Freshwater Crustacean Biodiversity and Conservation focuses on minor crustacean groups and regionally endemic groups, all from freshwaters.

This volume looks at a collection of stem cell and regenerative techniques used by both novice and expert scientists.

This book introduces a new evolutionary model called “Hierarchical Evolutionary-Developmental Theory” or “H-Evo-Devo Theory.

First Minds: Caterpillars, 'Karyotes, and Consciousness presents a novel theory of the origins of mind and consciousness dubbed the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC).

Signal Transduction in Cancer and Immunity, Volume 361 in the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology series highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics.

Stem cells are the building blocks for all other cells in an organism.

Plants provide a source of survival for all life on this planet.

This Major Reference Work offers a detailed overview of culturing primary, secondary cell lines, tissues, and organs.

Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy V, Volume 187 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on timely topics, including Orthotopic brain tumor models derived from glioblastoma stem-like cells, RNA sequencing in hematopoietic stem cells, Generation of inducible pluripotent stem cells from human dermal fibroblasts, In vitro preparation of dental pulp stem cell grafts combined with biocompatible scaffolds for tissue engineering, Gene expression knockdown in chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells, Identification and isolation of slow-cycling GSCs, Assessment of CD133, EpCAM, and much more.

Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Organoid Models, Volume 159 highlights recent and emerging advances that describe organoid differentiation protocols for the different organ systems that implement organoids as tools to understand complexity and maturation, high content drug screening, disease modeling, development and evolution.

TAM Receptors in Health and Disease, Volume 357 in the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, reviews the role of TAM receptors in health and diseases.

This comprehensive guide to potato production systems management contains 20 chapters and more than 350 color photographs.

Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait(R): A Collaborative Partnership to Reduce Preterm Births in Kentucky through Community-based Interventions 2007 - 2009 provides readers with an overview of the problem of preterm birth in the US, also describing in detail the design, implementation, evaluation, and outcomes of the Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait initiative conducted in Kentucky between 2007 and 2009.

Plants as sessile organisms have evolved fascinating capacities to adapt to changes in their natural environment.

The book provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of the essential role of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in bone formation.

This Series provides a comprehensive survey of the major topics in the field of developmental biology.

Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development.

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Monitoring Vesicular Trafficking in Cellular Responses to Stress - Part B, Volume 165 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new release presenting coverage of different topics, including A novel tool for detecting lysosomal membrane permeabilization by high-throughput fluorescence microscopy, Exploring selective autophagy in Drosophila, Assessment of EGFP-Q74 degradation for the measurement of autophagic flux, Multimodal assessment of autophagy in mammalian cells with a novel, LC3-based tandem reporter, Multiplex quantification of autophagic flux by imaging flow cytometry, Monitoring autophagic flux in Caenorhabditis elegans using p62/SQST-1 reporters, High throughput screening for autophagy, and much more.

This book addresses the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), a new medical concept that demonstrates that various adult diseases start in the fetal period.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Echinoderms and prochordates occupy a key position in vertebrate evolution.

Xenopus have gained increasing popularity as a laboratory animal and continue to serve as an important part of biomedical research.

This book describes transcription factors in the context of hematopoietic development and reveal mechanistic insights how they orchestrate specific gene expression patterns.

This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers the area of mechanisms in regeneration.

This title employs biochemical, cell biological, and genetic approaches to study mitochondrial structure, function, and biogenesis.

This detailed volume explores a variety of techniques used to study lineage commitment in stem cells.

The objectives of this volume are to present an up-to-date (literature survey up to 2001) account of the biology of Artemia focusing particularly upon the major advances in knowledge and understanding achieved in the last fifteen or so years and emphasising the operational and functional linkage between the biological phenomena described and the ability of this unusual animal to thrive in extreme environments.

This volume discusses the current state of research findings related to healthy brain aging by integrating human clinical studies and translational research in animal models.

The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change.

Plant Nanobionics, Volume 2 continues the important discussion of nanotechnology in plants, but focuses with a focus on biosynthesis and toxicity.